Nonstop flight route between New York City, New York, United States and Guilin, Guangxi, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York, United States and Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL), Guilin, Guangxi, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,870 miles (or 12,666 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between LaGuardia Airport and Guilin Liangjiang International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between LaGuardia Airport and Guilin Liangjiang International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about LaGuardia Airport (LGA):

• During the Floyd Bennett experiment La Guardia and American executives began an alternative plan to build a new airport in Queens, where it could take advantage of the new Queens–Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan.
• LaGuardia has also been criticized for some of its outdated facilities.
• The furthest airport from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,754 miles (18,917 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• The Central Terminal Building serves most of LaGuardia's domestic airlines.
• The closest airport to LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Flushing Airport (closed 1984) (FLU), which is located only 2 miles (3 kilometers) E of LGA.
• LaGuardia Airport /ləˈɡwɑrdiə/ is an airport in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens.
• Because of LaGuardia Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at LaGuardia Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• Delta will invest $100 million to renovate terminals C and D in LaGuardia, where it will operate a total of 32 gates.
• LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has 2 runways.
• American Airlines accepted La Guardia's offer to start a pilot program of scheduled flights to Floyd Bennett, although the program failed after several months because of Newark's better proximity to Manhattan.

Facts about Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL):

• Because of Guilin Liangjiang International Airport's relatively low elevation of 571 feet, planes can take off or land at Guilin Liangjiang International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• Guilin Liangjiang International Airport handled 5,489,481 passengers last year.
• During World War II, the airport was known as Kweilin Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign.
• The furthest airport from Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL) is Ricardo García Posada Airport El Salvador Bajo Airport (ESR), which is nearly antipodal to Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (meaning Guilin Liangjiang International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ricardo García Posada Airport El Salvador Bajo Airport), and is located 12,360 miles (19,892 kilometers) away in El Salvador, Chile.
• Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL) is Liuzhou Bailian Airport (LZH), which is located 81 miles (130 kilometers) SSW of KWL.
• In addition to being known as "Guilin Liangjiang International Airport", other names for KWL include "Gveilinz Unggyangh Gozci Gihcangz桂林两江国际机场" and "Guìlín Liǎngjiāng Guójì Jīchǎng".